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Chiraq To LA

Chiraq To LA is a diss track by Tyga targeting Lil Durk. The recording also credits The Game. The record answers Lil Durk after their 2014 dispute began around Durk's lyric about Blac Chyna; Tyga recruited The Game for the response, widening the exchange into a Chicago–Los Angeles confrontation.

Released2014
Annotated4
ExplicitYes
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Lyrics & breakdown

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  1. 01

    [Intro]

    02

    187

  2. 03

    [Verse 1: Tyga]

    04

    Know some Hoover niggas that's down to ride

    05

    For a homicide, when its drama time

    06

    Niggas thinkin' that they MCs

    07

    Can't get touched, well its hammer time

  3. 08

    Who the fuck is Lil Durk?

    Multi-line diss block
    09

    I dust you like ash and purp

    10

    Your flow wack, my flow crack

    11

    Got marble floors, your floors crack

    Block noteAttacks the target's ability to rap

    TargetLil Durk

    MeaningWhat it means: In “Your flow wack, my flow crack,” Tyga challenges Lil Durk on writing, delivery, flow, or command of the microphone rather than relying only on a personal insult. Why it was said: The record answers Lil Durk after their 2014 dispute began around Durk's lyric about Blac Chyna; Tyga recruited The Game for the response, widening the exchange into a Chicago–Los Angeles confrontation. This goes to the qualification that gives Lil Durk standing in a rap battle; if the craft is weak, the reply loses authority before its other claims are considered.

    ContextThe record answers Lil Durk after their 2014 dispute began around Durk's lyric about Blac Chyna; Tyga recruited The Game for the response, widening the exchange into a Chicago–Los Angeles confrontation.

  4. 12

    Got rap shit, mice traps

    13

    These niggas broke, need ankle wraps

    14

    Don't ride around in L.A. if you ain't come on the jet with the strap

    15

    My niggas 52 Orange roofs, orange coupes, Ciroc orange juice

  5. 16

    Trel said fuck all you, my OG Chimp out soon

    17

    H rat, shout out ScHoolboy Q, still my dog

    18

    You're a real one, I owe you

    19

    Shot at them niggas when you heard the news

  6. 20

    If your daughter ever need something, don't hesitate, I got you

    Multi-line diss block
    21

    Posted up on sunset at the House Of Blues like it's all cool

    22

    Might get trapped in Vegas too, call Mally Mall he with Big U

    23

    I might be in Bel Air, still got niggas in the field

    Block noteMakes the feud personal through family

    TargetLil Durk

    MeaningWhat it means: In “If your daughter ever need something, don't hesitate, I got you,” Tyga brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with Lil Durk, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The record answers Lil Durk after their 2014 dispute began around Durk's lyric about Blac Chyna; Tyga recruited The Game for the response, widening the exchange into a Chicago–Los Angeles confrontation. Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for Lil Durk and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.

    ContextThe record answers Lil Durk after their 2014 dispute began around Durk's lyric about Blac Chyna; Tyga recruited The Game for the response, widening the exchange into a Chicago–Los Angeles confrontation.

  7. 24

    Twenty-million, LK real

    25

    With Yeezus in that SLR, T Raw upper echelon

    26

    No Lil Jets just G5's

    27

    Free CB, H Rat, Lil Punch and baby Nitty

  8. 28

    My Maybach cost two chickens, you ain't got one? Don't talk my language

    29

    I'm king shitting on yo' bitch

    30

    Southpaw and we in the gym

    31

    Tryna be a baller? End up like Flip in "Above The Rim"

  9. 32

    You too small like Smeagol

    33

    I'm swatting the mosquito

    34

    I'll put you under the earth now it’s a garden on your tombstone

    35

    You shit stain teenagers, barely teething on hundos

  10. 36

    I'll hold you like the slave you are, all my whips mayo

    37

    You from Illinois? I'll bring the noise

    38

    You ain't platinum? Don't talk to me, grammy nominated? Don't talk to me

    39

    Twenty-million? Don't talk to me

  11. 40

    It's levels to this shit, boy, you basement? Don't talk to me

    Multi-line diss block
    41

    You want the fame? I'll take your name and that weak bitch you fall asleep with!

    Block noteChallenges the target's public standing

    TargetLil Durk

    MeaningWhat it means: In “You want the fame? I'll take your name and that weak bitch you fall asleep with!,” Tyga questions whether Lil Durk's attention, audience, or reputation reflects genuine respect. Why it was said: The record answers Lil Durk after their 2014 dispute began around Durk's lyric about Blac Chyna; Tyga recruited The Game for the response, widening the exchange into a Chicago–Los Angeles confrontation. Visibility can be mistaken for victory, so the artist recasts Lil Durk's recognition as temporary, manufactured, or disconnected from credibility.

    ContextThe record answers Lil Durk after their 2014 dispute began around Durk's lyric about Blac Chyna; Tyga recruited The Game for the response, widening the exchange into a Chicago–Los Angeles confrontation.

  12. 42

    [Verse 2: The Game]

    43

    Ain't got no time for this rap shit, Blood Money, Cash Money

    44

    Ain't got no time for this rap shit, Cash Money, Blood Money

    45

    Ain't got no time for this rap shit, rap money, drug money

    46

    I'm straight nigga, straightjacket!

  13. 47

    Yo, Trel, let a nigga hit him with a ratchet

    48

    Big U let a nigga get some matches

    49

    I'ma torch the building this La Familia

    50

    Pull up and spin a nigga backwards

  14. 51

    Light it up, smoke a nigga like a Backwood

    52

    (Gotta channel DMX)

    53

    Coming through with my dogs (Grrr)

    54

    That chopper going through walls

  15. 55

    This beef shit? That's me shit, pull up bangin' that Meek shit

    56

    That monster truck pull up side of that Benz?

    57

    (Niggas ain't saying nothin')

    58

    Choppers aimed at yo' whip, nigga!

  16. 59

    (Niggas ain't saying nothin')

    60

    Cash Money, Family Hustle like Tip, nigga!

    61

    (Niggas ain't saying nothin')

    62

    Come through, few Bloods, few Crips, nigga!

  17. 63

    (Niggas ain't saying nothin')

    64

    T Raw? I got you, don't trip, nigga!

    65

    First off lemme go on 40 Glock again

    66

    Talk about my kids on Instagram?

  18. 67

    Nigga must wanna get his ass socked again!

    68

    Tell a lie like I pulled out a Glock on him

    69

    Don't make me resurrect Pac again!

    70

    You ScHoolboy like Kendrick and Top and them

  19. 71

    Have a bitch nigga running to the cops again

    72

    It's all Gucci Mane, Waka Flock and them

    73

    (Green Light)

    74

    That mean go, nigga, if you ever see this ho nigga, on mama, nigga, it's a

  20. 75

    (Green Light)

    76

    From where my nigga died to Riverside, even your niggas know it's a

    77

    (Green Light)

    78

    Better run through the red ones, fuck around and be a dead one

  21. 79

    (Jump in the middle of beef, cause I don't like no one)

    80

    (Step behind these bars and I don't write not one)

    81

    (Niggas bumping they lips but they don't like no guns)

    82

    (Just close your eyes and that light gon' come)

  22. 83

    I don't fuck with no new niggas, they like to sue, no woo, nigga

    Multi-line diss block
    84

    Tyga hit me like "Durk dissing"

    85

    Dirk Nowitzki? Dirk who, nigga?

    86

    Never heard of these niggas

    Block notePressures the target to answer

    TargetLil Durk

    MeaningWhat it means: In “Tyga hit me like "Durk dissing",” Tyga treats Lil Durk's response, delay, or silence as part of the contest rather than a neutral choice. Why it was said: The record answers Lil Durk after their 2014 dispute began around Durk's lyric about Blac Chyna; Tyga recruited The Game for the response, widening the exchange into a Chicago–Los Angeles confrontation. By defining silence as concession, the line tries to control the timetable of the feud and force Lil Durk into replying on the artist's terms.

    ContextThe record answers Lil Durk after their 2014 dispute began around Durk's lyric about Blac Chyna; Tyga recruited The Game for the response, widening the exchange into a Chicago–Los Angeles confrontation.

  23. 87

    Some of the nerve of these niggas

    88

    Don't make me put on burgundy, nigga

    89

    Let the AK [gunshots] I'm serving these niggas

    90

    Yo, T raw, time to murder these niggas

  24. 91

    Black suburban these niggas

    92

    I'm taking bitches, I'm taking chains, yeah, I'm Young Bergin' these niggas

    93

    Ain't start making guns when they made you, nigga

    94

    Ain't no Jayhawk but I'll K you, nigga

  25. 95

    And I know Hoovers, I know 60s

    96

    (I know Westside Pirus, niggas down to die too)

    97

    Move in on them 50s

    98

    (I got niggas on west and the Southside of Chi too)

  26. 99

    Pull up in an '87 Cutlass

    100

    Throwing bullets like Jay Cutler

    101

    Fuck this, what's this? Niggas talking all that fuck shit, tough shit

    102

    Put a nigga on like Trukfit

  27. 103

    I know Lil Wayne, I know Lil Reese

    104

    I know Lil Herb, I know Lil Keef

    105

    I know Lil Boosie, that nigga free like this ass whooping

    106

    Come fuck with me, I got hands, I got bands

  28. 107

    Goddamn, I am what I am

    108

    .45 go blam with no jam

    109

    Bring a nigga Vietnam, let's go ham

    110

    Niggas runnin' out of ham, let's go spam

  29. 111

    Nigga dip through your set like Killa Cam

    112

    I'm talkin' to the man, with no fans

    113

    This is a DM with no gram

    114

    Ridin' through the Chi, ain't ever seen Oprah

  30. 115

    Hit a 300 with my little nigga Sosa

    116

    Brown paper bag, sippin' on a Four Loko

    117

    Nigga get love, I ain't talkin' 'bout The Notebook

    118

    Niggas got killers out here, west side, they feel us out here

  31. 119

    Like Weasel Sims and Chicago, realest out here

    120

    Old man and the Capitol Hill is out here

    121

    On the low end, all my BD niggas bring the dope in

    122

    BD twins locked up in the feds and my nigga Bump J, hold your head

  32. 123

    If you getting money, nigga, hold your bread

    124

    Rock my Pelle P like L.E.P., them Bogus Boys? They Fuck with me

    125

    I fuck with stones till I OD'

    126

    69, Seven Deuce

  33. 127

    Marshalville, I mean Murderville

    128

    Yellow G, gave me a bitch off of Damen Ave I use her to kill

    129

    She from the Chi, but she ain't shy

    130

    She ain't never met a nigga who can't die

  34. 131

    I'm so Southside, I'm so Northside

    132

    I'm so Westside, nigga, "Ain't I?"

    133

    Got more niggas in the Chi than Jay

    134

    (Chi than Jay)

  35. 135

    I might be more Chi Town than Ye

    136

    (Chi Town than Ye')

    137

    I'm on the low end with my nigga Parkay

    138

    (With my nigga Parkay)

  36. 139

    And he A GD, but it's free Bump J

    140

    4CH but I'm like Barksdale in this Shark Tale

    141

    OG like a car sale

    142

    Chopper spins, you do cartwheels

  37. 143

    Lil Durk under a lil dirt

    144

    (And nobody knows you)

    145

    Dis ain't what they want!

    146

    (Nobody knows you)

  38. 147

    (Bitch, I thought that was Future's song!)

    148

    (I'm bout to show you)

    149

    You done caught yourself a Little L dog

    150

    (Man, nobody knows you)

  39. 151

    You heard of Lil Durk?

    152

    Nigga, hell nah!